PM: First real day of food

Wow...food tastes good. Carrots are like candy. I had fun at the commissary today buying a half a cart full of fruits and veggies: Bananas, yellow and green onion, Roma and cherry tomatoes, spinach, iceberg and romaine lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, carrots, celery, strawberries, mushrooms, cilantro, jalapenos, apples, potatoes, grapes, garlic, and I may be forgetting something. Seriously though, everything tastes amazing. The strawberries especially. I added nothing to them - no sweetener, no whip cream...nothing and it was like eating candy. Plus it didn't hurt that the crop of strawberries to select from today was absolutely outstanding - HUGE, bright red, firm, juicy, sweet, with perfect looking seeds spaced out flawlessly. So amazing I had to take a picture of one before I ate it:

I do admit, however, that my visual appetite is much larger than what my stomach is allowing. It's hard not to be able to taste everything all at once, but I don't want to digress and lose all that I'd worked hard to accomplish so far. So I had to practice restraint and moderation. I spaced out my fruit/veggie snacking to allow for some digestion in between scrumptious flavors. It's seriously as if I'm tasting everything for the first time. And with nature's candy at my disposal, it's hard to think of fried fatty foods, though I am still looking forward to my burger and fries planned for Friday. I guess old habits die hard. I'm just hoping this new habit will prevail more strongly over the much less healthy yet completely addictive processed foods.

I'm also noticing something strange going on. Without giving TMI, I think the best way to describe what's happening is this: You know when you have a clogged sink? It's been slowly clogging and the water has been lagging more and more over time. Well, you get the most potent of Drano and pour it down the sink - for 10 days, maybe? Anyway, after you treat the sink, the pipes are crystal clear, right? Well when you finally run water through it again, what does the water do? Runs right on through faster than ever. Well, that's how my digestive system is working. It's interesting to say the least.

Today I ate fairly healthy. Jeremy got a sandwich at Java Flatts this morning and couldn't eat it all so he gave me the other half. I had a yogurt for breakfast, the other sandwich half for lunch, I snacked on some fruits and veggies, and we had fresh pico-de-gallo with tortilla chips for dinner.

My stomach gargled this evening not with hunger, but with a very pleasant sigh. It's almost as if it was saying, "YUMmmmm...my compliments to the chef...I...the tummy...am happy."

I still haven't worked out at the gym. I want to, but I have a ton going on this week between work, chores, and getting ready for a bazaar coming up this weekend. I'm hoping I'll be able to start going back to the gym on Friday. If not Friday, then DEFINITELY Saturday.